Word Meanings - NIDAMENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

of, pertaining to, or baring, eggs or egg capsules; as, the nidament capsules of certain gastropods; nidamental glands. See Illust. of Dibranchiata.

Related words: (words related to NIDAMENTAL)

• BAREFACEDNESS
  The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• BARKER'S MILL
  A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.
• BARK BEETLE
  A small beetle of many species , which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
• BARRAS
  A resin, called also galipot.
• BARONET
  A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners. Note: The order was founded
• BAROCYCLONOMETER
  An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.
• BARK; BARQUE
  A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast squarerigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged. (more info) 1. Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically
• BARQUE
  See N
• BARIUM
  One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic
• BARDLING
  An inferior bard. J. Cunningham.
• BARLEY-BREE
  Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns.
• BARONIAL
  Pertaining to a baron or a barony. "Baronial tenure." Hallam.
• BAROMETZ
  The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.
• BARRAMUNDI
  A remarkable Australian fresh-water ganoid fish of the genus Ceratodus. An Australian river fish .
• BARBADIAN
  Of or pertaining to Barbados. -- n.
• BARK LOUSE
  An insect of the family Coccidæ, which infests the bark of trees and vines. Note: The wingless females assume the shape of scales. The bark louse of vine is Pulvinaria innumerabilis; that of the pear is Lecanium pyri. See Orange scale.
• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• BARROOM
  A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.
• IRONBARK TREE
  The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also ironwood.
• SUBARYTENOID
  Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.
• GIBBARTAS
  One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale.
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• SYBARITISM
  Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• IMBARGO
  See EMBARGO
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• CAPYBARA
  A large South American rodent Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai